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<div class="field field-name-field-event-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Dates:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Friday, May 10, 2013 - <span class="date-display-start" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-05-10T12:30:00-07:00">12:30pm</span> to <span class="date-display-end" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2013-05-10T13:30:00-07:00">1:30pm</span></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Join in a Green Tea Conversation with Mee-Yin Mary Yuen on "Migrant Women Workers in Hong Kong and Catholic Ethical Response."</p>
<p>Mee-Yin Mary Yuen, from Hong Kong, China, is currently a PhD student in IDS area with focus on Christian social ethics, Chinese Confucian ethics, and Asian theology. She taught Catholic social ethics in several religious institutions in Hong Kong. She worked in the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese before and has engaged in the social justice ministry at local and Asian levels for many years. </p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img alt="Al Tizon" src="http://www.evangelicalsforsocialaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Al.jpg" style="width: 150px; height: 225px; margin: 6px; float: left;" />When Ron Sider, a prominent evangelical voice for social justice, steps down from his post as president of Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) in June 2013, GTU alumnus F. Albert "Al" Tizon will share the reins. Tizon (Ph.D. '05) will serve as co-president of the organization with Paul Alexander, a graduate of Baylor, in a "consensus model," according to a post on the organization's website. Currently Tizon serves as Director of Holistic Ministry Programs at ESA.</p>
<p>He is the author of <em>Transformation After Lausanne: Radical Evangelical Mission in Global-Local Perspective</em> (Regnum, 2008); co-author of <em>Linking Arms, Linking Lives: How Urban-Suburban Partnerships Can Transform Communities</em> (Baker, 2008), along with Ron Sider, John Perkins and Wayne Gordon;<em> Missional Preaching: Embrace, Engage, Transform </em>(Judson, 2012); and co-editor of <em>Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations </em>(Judson, 2012) with Sydney Park and Soong-Chan Rah.</p>
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<p><strong>Jorge Alberto Aquino, </strong>“Ni Blanquitos, Ni Negritos”: Race, Nation, and Identity in U.S. Latino/a Theology</p>
<p><strong>Michael Sepidoza Campos, </strong>From Bodies Displaced to Selves Unfurled: A Queer and Postcolonial Filipino-American Theological Anthropology</p>
<p><strong>Jae Haeng Choi, </strong>A Group Spiritual Exercise for Healing Han/Brokenheartedness</p>
<p><strong>Cynthia Col, </strong>Picturing the Canon: The Murals, Sculpture, and Architecture of the Derge Parkhang</p>
<p><strong>Joanne Doi, </strong>Bridge to Compassion: Theological Pilgrimage to Tule Lake and Manzanar</p>
<p><strong>Matthew S. Haar Farris</strong>, Participatory Wisdom in Religious Studies: Jacques Derrida, Philo-Sophia, and Religious Pluralism</p>
<p><strong>Brett C. Hoover, </strong> “What Are We Doing Here?” Local Theologies of Mission from a Shared Catholic Parish in the Midwest</p>
<p><strong>Katherine Lorelle Hough</strong>, Restorative Justice and Restorative Theology: A Dialogue</p>
<p><strong>Christina K. Hutchins, </strong>Departure: Using Judith Butler’s Agency and Alfred North Whitehead’s Value to Read Temporality Anew</p>
<p><strong>Donny Inbar, </strong>A Closeted Jester: Abraham Goldfaden between Huskalah Ideology and Jewish Show Business</p>
<p><strong>Manhong Lin, </strong>Toward a Chinese Christian Ethic: Individual, Community, and Society</p>
<p><strong>Yinghua Liu</strong>, Chinese Converts in the Chinese Rites Controversy: Ancestral Rites and Their Identity</p>
<p><strong>Carol J. Manahan</strong>, The Moral Economy of Corn: Starlink™ and the Ethic of Resistance</p>
<p><strong>Caroline N. Mbonu, </strong>A Redemptive Reading of the Doulē in Luke 1:26-38: Towards a Liberative Process for Women in Igbo Society</p>
<p><strong>Scott A. Mitchell, </strong>Taking Refuge in the Dharma: Post-Colonialism, Ritual Theory, and American Buddhist Studies</p>
<p><strong>Christy M. Newton</strong>, Saving at Wal-Mart: A Theological Analysis of Relationships in Consumer Culture</p>
<p><strong>Damon A. Powell, </strong>Black Is Beautiful: An Exploration in Black Theology, Aesthetics and Art</p>
<p><strong>John Charles Roedel</strong>, Love is Not a Strategy: Reconsidering Principled Nonviolence</p>
<p><strong>Patricia D. Shannon, </strong>Contemporary Pilgrimage Narratives and Social Theory: A Search for the Self</p>
<p><strong>Emily Leah Silverman</strong>, Crossing Over: The Queering of the Religious Identities of Edith Stein, a Jewish Nun and Regina Jonas, a Woman Rabbi</p>
<p><strong>Denis Thalson, </strong>Individual Memorials: An Emerging Typology of Ritual Mediation through Place</p>
<p><strong>Marina True</strong>, Prophet of a New Humanity: Paulos Mar Gregorios on Tradition, Context, and Change as a Basis for Christian Community</p>
<p><strong>Tu Thien Van Truong</strong>, Mệnh Trời: Toward a Vietnamese Theology of Mission</p>
<p><strong>Martín Hugo Videla Córdova Quero</strong>, Multiply Hybrids: Japanese Brazilian Migrants Negotiating their Identities within the Roman Catholic Church in Japan</p>
<p><strong>Nancy S. Wiens, </strong>Discernment and Nature: Exploring Their Relationship through Christian Spirituality and the Natural Sciences</p>
<p><strong>Duck-Kyu Yun, </strong>Contemplation and Solidarity: A Study of Post-Traumatic Growth in the Christian Tradition</p>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><img alt="Boyung Lee, Associate Professor of Educational Ministries, Pacific School of Religion, is the Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient for 2012" src="[GTU_HOME_URL]/sites/default/files/images/gtu-old/boyung-lee.jpg" style="width: 400px; height: 267px; margin: 6px; float: right;" />May 10, 2012</strong> - Graduate Theological Union announced Pacific School of Religion Professor Boyung Lee as the 2012 recipient of its Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award during its May Commencement ceremony.</p>
<p>The selection committee said in its announcement that Lee &quot;embodies in an exemplary way the values of &#39;interreligious sensitivity and commitment,&#39; &#39;interdisciplinary approach and content in teaching,&#39; &#39;sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity,&#39; and &#39;creative and effective classroom pedagogical methods and performance.&#39;</p>
<p>In response to accepting the award, Lee said, &quot;Most of my teachings for doctoral students have been through special reading courses on postcolonial, poststructuralist, feminist or critical pedagogies and through my ongoing mentoring work for them, especially for students of color. I consider my mentoring work for students of color as important as my classroom teachings, and thus I have offered two workshops for women of color students during this academic year through the Women&rsquo;s Studies in Religion Program.&quot;</p>
<p>Lee strives to teach from Asian American and postcolonial feminist perspectives, and says that she is committed to paying attention to her implicit and null curriculum as well as explicit curriculum. From her perspective, the explicit curriculum, one that is the actual content, which is consciously and intentionally presented as the teachings of the class. Implicit curriculum is one that, through its environment, includes the way teachers teach and interact with students. Null curriculum are those ideas and subjects in educational programs that are sidestepped.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lee strives not to provide Western metanarratives in her classes by lifting up the scholarships and voices of the minoritized communities.&nbsp; She also encourages her students to reflect critically on their own and their community&rsquo;s implicit and null curricula, considering question such as: &ldquo;Are you really teaching what you say you are teaching&mdash;especially education for justice and compassion?&rdquo;,&nbsp; &ldquo;Do the processes of education embody the contents of education&mdash;is the process as justice-oriented as are the contents?&rdquo;,&nbsp; &ldquo;Who benefits from what we teach and do?,&nbsp; Who and what is missing?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Lee spend lots of time outside of the classroom to mentor students, and tries to help them find their own voice and to develop a distinctive pedagogy.</p>
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</ul>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:00:00 +0000communications822 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/boyung-lee-2012-sarlo-excellence-in-teaching-award-recipient#commentsJudith A. Berlinghttp://gtu.edu/academics/faculty-directory/a-b/berling-judith-a
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Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religions<br />
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<p>At GTU since 1987</p>
<p>Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976</p>
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E-mail: <a href="mailto:jberling@gtu.edu">jberling@gtu.edu</a></p>
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<em>Understanding Other Religious Worlds: A Guide for Interreligious Education, </em>Orbis, 2004.</li>
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<em>A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture: Negotiating Religious Diversity</em>, Orbis, 1997.</li>
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"Why Chinese Thought on Relgious Diversity is Important," in <em>Religious Diversity in Chinese Thought</em>, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2013.</li>
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"Confucianism and Peacebuilding," in <em>Religion and Peacebuilding,</em> ed. Harold Coward and Gordon S. Smith, State University of New York Press, 2004.</li>
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"Beyond 2000: The Global World and Theological Education," <em>Pacifica: Journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity</em>, 1998.</li>
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"Getting out of the Way: A Strategy for Engaging Students in Collaborative Learning," in <em>Teaching Theology and Religion</em>, 1998.</li>
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<p>Scholarship in the humanities and human sciences, and particularly in theological and religious studies, is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary. However, relatively few scholars are trained in critically articulating the need for or evaluating the success of such scholarship. Interdisciplinary Studies scholars will be equipped to participate in such conversations within the academy. The Interdisciplinary Studies program is designed for students whose interests are so centrally interdisciplinary that they want to develop critical language to articulate the interdisciplinary shape, implications, and accountabilities of their work. Many of the Areas of the GTU encourage some form of interdisciplinary work, but some students find that the disciplines they wish to combine or the extent of their interdisciplinary scholarship is not suitable for the Area; such students may turn to Interdisciplinary Studies if they meet the criteria outlined below.</p>
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IDS students will articulate and critically analyze the model, implications, and accountabilities of their interdisciplinary work; demonstrate the theoretical and methodological grounding in each of their disciplines appropriate to the specific role each discipline/theory plays in their interdisciplinary work; design their programs in relation to a clear articulation of their specific professional goals; demonstrate the ability to participate in professional discourse in their field/s in the academy and in the broader community.</p>
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Interdisciplinary Studies applicants must propose in their <em>Statement of Purpose</em> a clearly framed and academically manageable set of interests and course of study for which there are faculty resources at the GTU, secondarily supplemented by UC Berkeley. The applicant must identify at least one discipline represented on the Core Doctoral Faculty as a primary field. The student’s academic advisor will have expertise in that discipline to provide appropriate guidance as to the content of the student’s work. If an appropriate advisor cannot be identified, IDS will be unable to admit the applicant. Applicants are strongly encouraged to consult with the convener of Interdisciplinary Studies well in advance of application deadlines so that they can prepare to submit a statement that is appropriately focused and that fits with the faculty resources of the GTU.</p>
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IDS requires two languages beyond the student's native language, at least one of which must be a modern research language. The languages are determined in consultation with the student's committee and presented to the IDS Area for review and approval.</p>
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The Area requires that students take IDS 6000 (Seminar on Interdisciplinarity) in their first fall semester. This seminar introduces students to the theories and vocabulary of interdisciplinarity, and also provides a context in which they develop and critically consider the shape of their academic program in light of their career goals and their distinctive models of interdisciplinarity. Students are also required to consult with their advisors to identify and take courses that will be necessary for their broad grounding and the development of their specialized research skills. The normal course load for years one and two should be in line with the General Protocol of the GTU Doctoral Program (3 three-unit courses plus 3 units of “Preparation for comps”).<br />
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<p><strong>Comprehensive Examinations</strong><br />
IDS comprehensives presuppose a prior grounding in broad disciplines and areas that comprise the student's interdisciplinarity. The grounding is developed with the student's initial advisor and in the required Seminar on Interdisciplinarity, and then refined and approved by the student's comprehensives committee.</p>
<p>The IDS Comprehensive Examinations are a set of four examinations. Two of the examinations establish the grounding of the student in the literature, issues, and theoretical/methodological debates in their major fields or sub-fields. The third is an articulation of their interdisciplinary accountabilities to their fields/sub-fields (sufficient for their doctoral project and for their professional goals) and of their model of interdisciplinary research. The fourth is a research paper exemplifying the interdisciplinary scholarship of the student. See the IDS protocol for more detailed descriptions of these examinations.</p>
<p><strong>Dissertation</strong><br />
Area students are expected to meet all general GTU requirements and standards for the dissertation proposal and the dissertation. Dissertations will be evaluated using the Dissertation Rubric developed by the Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions Area.</p>
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Students who declare IDS as an Allied Field will be required to take IDS 6000, a 5000-level or above course to be approved as appropriate to the student's research focus by the Convener along with a 4-5 page paper on the interdisciplinarity of the course to be reviewed by the IDS seminar instructor, as well as the third "comprehensive" (outlined above).</div>
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<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/a-b/berling-judith-a">JUDITH A. BERLING</a> • GTU (Chinese and Comparative Religions) • Interreligious learning; student-centered pedagogy; interreligious education and theological education; East Asian spiritualities.</p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/d-f/farajaje-ibrahim-abdurrahman">IBRAHIM ABDURRAHAM FARAJAJÉ</a> • SKSM (Cultural Studies/Islamic Studies) • Study of Islam; history of Sufism; history of Islam; postcolonial theory; diaspora studies; HIV/AIDS; bodies, genders, and space in Islam; videotics.</p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/d-f/fernandez-eduardo-c">EDUARDO FERNÁNDEZ, S.J.</a> • JST (Pastoral Theology &amp; Mission) • Relationship between faith and culture; U.S. Hispanic theology and ministry; Hispanic religious expressions; celebration of sacraments in multicultural contexts Mexican history and the history of the southwest; relationship between art, spirituality, and inculturation.</p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/d-f/marion-grau">MARION S. GRAU</a> • CDSP (Theology) • Constructive theological approaches to Christian doctrines; Soteriology; Theological hermeneutics; Theology and Economy; Theologies between cultures; Postcolonial missiology; Ecological theology; Process theology; Post-structuralist, gender, race, class and queer approaches to theology.</p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/g-i/lee-boyung-new-version">BOYUNG LEE</a> <span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(81, 81, 81); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" xml:lang="EN">• PSR (Religion and Education) • </span><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Postcolonialism; Racial/Ethnic Identity and Sexuality; Asian Feminist Theology; Confucian Educational Philosophy; Personhood of Individualism and Communalism; Post-structuralist Pedagogy.</span></p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/o-q/bernard-schlager">BERNARD SCHLAGER</a> • PSR (History/Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions) • Queer studies; medieval social and religious history; LBGTQ pastoral care.</p>
<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/o-q/seidman-naomi-sheindel-gtu">NAOMI SEIDMAN</a> • GTU (Jewish Culture) • Translation theory and the Bible in translation; secular Jewish culture; modern Jewish literature.</p>
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<p><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/m/inese-radzins">INESE RADZINS</a> <span lang="EN" style="color: rgb(81, 81, 81); font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;" xml:lang="EN">• PSR (Theology) • </span><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt;">Feminist theory; continental philosophy; Simone Weil; Emanuel Swedenborg.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(89, 89, 89); font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 9pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 166; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a href="[GTU_HOME_URL]/academics/faculty-directory/o-q/singer-susan-j-cdsp">SUSANNA J. SINGER</a> • CDSP (Ministry Development) • Developing theological and pedagogical strategies in the service of faith commitment in a postmodern context; Holistic Christian education and formation; Transformative learning and reflective practice; Investigating and developing new models of ministry for a changing church and world; Ethnographic and qualitative research.</span></p>
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</ul>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:13:04 +0000admin29 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/academics/areas/interdisciplinary-studies#commentsViolence against indigenous religionshttp://gtu.edu/news/violence-against-indigenous-religions
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Izak Lattu, a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies, denounces changes by the Indonesian government which oppress practioners of indigenous religion.</p>
<p>"Although indigenous faiths such as Sunda Wiwitan, Kejawen and other forms of traditional beliefs represent local ways of addressing the Ultimate Reality, they nonetheless encounter discrimination on a political basis....</p>
<p>"Having been suppressed, the Sunda Wiwitan community is now longing for freedom of religious expression. Unfortunately, neither the national government nor the local government of Bandung have dealt seriously with the problem."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/01/03/violence-against-indigenous-religions.html">Read in <em>The Jakarta Post</em></a></p>
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</ul>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000communications882 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/violence-against-indigenous-religions#commentsAn irony to religious tolerancehttp://gtu.edu/news/an-irony-to-religious-tolerance
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Izak Lattu, doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies, explains how the actions of one Indonesian politician marks the exception to the general principle of religious tolerance in the country for which it is revered.</p>
<p>"It has been years of agony for GKI Taman Yasmin Protestant church congregation members as Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto has defied a Supreme Court decision to allow them to attend Sunday mass in their place of worship.</p>
<p>Budiarto’s bureaucratic move reflects the failure of not only law enforcement in the city, but also of the country’s civil justice system....</p>
<p>Indeed, the Bogor case reflects the irony of Indonesian religious tolerance, which has been dubbed a global model for inter-faith relations. In an international discussion at the Islamic Studies Program at the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, Marriane Farrina, a professor in Christian-Muslim dialogue, ranked Indonesia among the most preferable sites of peaceful relations among religions."</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/11/20/an-irony-religious-tolerance.html">Read in <em>The Jakarta Post</em></a></p>
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</ul>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0000communications900 at http://gtu.eduhttp://gtu.edu/news/an-irony-to-religious-tolerance#commentsE. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Supports Two Outstanding Studentshttp://gtu.edu/news-events/currents/fall-2011/carpenter-foundation-supports-two-outstanding-students
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<p>Sean Gross and Sheri Prud’homme are grateful recipients of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation scholarship — a two-year full tuition scholarship supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered persons of faith, or those endeavoring to insure faith communities’ understanding, affirmation, and inclusion of LGBT individuals. Both are 2nd-year Ph.D. students.</p>
<p><img alt="Sean Gross" class="image-left" src="[GTU_HOME_URL]/sites/default/files/images/gtu-old/Gross.jpg" style="width: 300px; float: left; height: 261px; margin: 6px;" />Sean Gross is studying Ethics and Social Theory and his idea for his dissertation is to assess the state of pastoral care for sexual minorities in Catholic parishes. At the end of his studies, he hopes to teach moral theology on the undergraduate level, and “help people discern their way through the world.”</p>
<p>Judging from his own discernment experience, he will be the right person for the job. As an undergraduate at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Gross argued for the sacramentality of gay marriage in the Catholic Church as he prepared to be a Maryknoll priest. But priesthood, he learned, was not his calling.</p>
<p>He went on to work for Teach For America, teaching Spanish at a rural high school in the Mississippi Delta, and later earned a Master’s degree in Moral Theology from Boston College. Along the way he took classes at Harvard in Queer Theology and Homosexuality and American Churches, and he is a resident minister at Santa Clara University. Among his many interests are body theology and early church history.</p>
<p>“I want to thank my cohort in Ethics and Social Theory, my parents, friends, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation for their help along the way,” says Gross.</p>
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“I saw a hunger among Unitarian Universalists for more knowledge about our theological heritage.”<br />
Sheri Prud’homme</p></blockquote>
<p><img alt="Sheri Prud'homme" class="image-right image-inline" src="[GTU_HOME_URL]/sites/default/files/images/gtu-old/Prudhomme.jpg" style="width: 200px; float: right; height: 323px; margin: 6px;" />Sheri Prud’homme, an ordained Unitarian Universalist (UU) minister, seeks through her Ph.D. work in Interdisciplinary Studies, to fill a gap she identified in UU religious education. “I saw a hunger among Unitarian Universalists for more knowledge about our theological heritage,” she says. “Particularly, I feel called by youth and young adults to help provide more depth in our faith tradition.”</p>
<p>Additionally, Prud’homme is concerned about the world’s burgeoning environmental and ecological crises. “We live such a consumptive lifestyle, and we’re wreaking havoc on large parts of the world’s ecosystems,” she says. She is studying Unitarian and Universalist theologies of nature in the period 1850-1910, particularly on the Pacific Coast, to discover relevant theological insights applied to the ecological crisis, “I hope I can play a role in UU religious education, while also finding a way to help faith traditions move forward in shaping a more sustainable world.”</p>
<p>Prud’homme thanks Judith Berling and Boyung Lee for their seminar on interdisciplinarity, her advisor Ibrahim Farajajé, Rebecca Parker, and Joanne Doi, because her work on California Immigrant theologies adds new considerations for UU history, mostly written from an east coast perspective. She is grateful for the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation for its generous support.</p>
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<p><img alt="Lattu" class="image-right" src="[GTU_HOME_URL]/sites/default/files/images/gtu-old/Lattu.jpg" style="width: 300px; float: left; height: 395px; margin: 6px;" />Izak Lattu has been practicing interfaith relations his whole life — literally. In the Indonesian Moluccan Islands (also known as Moluccas, the Maluku Islands, or the Spice Islands), where he grew up, there is a tradition called <em>Gandong</em>, which means there is one womb and one family, even among villages of different religions. For example, although both of his parents’ villages are Christian, they have a gandong relationship of mutual support with other nearby Muslim villages. Lattu’s elementary school was a Christian school, but 80% of the children attending were Muslims; many became his close friends. As an ordained pastor in the Protestant Church of the Moluccas, Lattu brought young Muslims and Christians together to study, dialogue, work, and play at a Pesantren or Islamic boarding school.</p>
<p>So it is with great sadness that Lattu recounts the Christian-Muslim conflict that occurred in the Moluccas from 1999–2003. It was sparked by a fight between two young men — one Christian and one Muslim — that may not even have had anything to do with religion. As people took sides and spun stories about what had taken place, and political interests entered into the fray, what began as a tussle became a full-fledged conflagration between Christians and Muslims. Before it was over, more than 13,000 people were killed, 100,000 were wounded, and a million became refugees.</p>
<p>It is no accident, then, that Lattu, who is also Vice Dean and faculty member at Satya Wacana Christian University in Central Java, a Fulbright Scholar, and a recent (and first) recipient of the Virginia Hadsheel Global Church Leader Scholarship, is now studying Christian-Muslim dialogue.</p>
<p>As a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Studies, Lattu sees himself one day returning to Indonesia to teach Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist students to be open-minded about the others’ religions. “I want people to experience each other in real life,” he emphasizes. “My hope is that all sides will be open to one another, so that in real life they can make room in their hearts for one another.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Berkeley, Lattu focuses his studies on a “local narrative” for Christian-Muslim dialogue. In the Moluccas, he explains, there is a strong oral tradition — a culture combining music, dance, and storytelling. He uses culture — which resonates with those in multiple religious traditions — as the entry point for Christian- Muslim dialogue.</p>
<p>To illustrate the use of music in conflict resolution in Indonesia, Lattu sings a popular song called “Gandong.” The song has the lilt of a lullaby and its lyrics convey the message that although people may have different beliefs, they have the same basic human spirit:</p>
<p><em>My brother/sister come on, I will tell you that we come from “one womb” …… to live together as younger sister/brother and older sister/brother is as sweet as sugar …… I feel what you feel and you feel what I feel …… We are brother and sister …… we come from the some womb …… we have the same heart and the same feeling.</em></p>
<p>“I see this song as a narrative of peace; one that can help create solidarity between the Christian and Muslim communities in Moluccas,” Lattu says. “After all, all Christians and Muslims are still Moluccan!”</p>
<p><strong>Lattu presented two papers this year on the theme, “Religion, Culture and Conflict Resolution in Indonesia” — one at the International Conference on Conflict Resolution at Lancaster University, UK, in September and one at the International Conference on South East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto in October. He is grateful for his studies at the GTU and all those on his dissertation committee: Judith Berling (Interfaith Studies), Clare Fisher (Postcolonial and Sociology of Religion), Sylvia Tiwon (Narrative and Oral History in Indonesia), and Bill O’Neill (Ethics and Conflict Resolution).</strong><br />
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